Terms for Publishing with us
This page is meant only if you have received an invite from a member of the HRhelpdesk team, incase you would like to receive an invite, please fill the contact us form and the team will circle back after evaluation.
1. Purpose
a. We are open to evaluate original content written directly by authors to be published on the website. When we say authors, we mean self-written and not on behalf of someone else.
2. Context and the Content
a. The content has to be Human Resource related and focused on India. The focus is to enhance knowledge and not share opinions, best practices or marketing of what is happening.
b. We will be looking at how the readers knowledge of Human Resources is enhanced by reading your article. Primarily your articles should be based on one of the following:
- Knowledge gained as a result of experience of working in Human Resources.
- Knowledge gained as a result of Research, Study, Survey or similar activities.
3. Editing
a. As far as possible, we shall publish the article in the format you have given, if there are any changes or modifications to it, we shall share the modified version with you, and only on your approval shall the same be published.
4. Backlinks, Sharing and Other Details
a. The content will not have any links, as the purpose is for people to read. However, in About the Author, you are free to share either the LinkedIn URL of your profile, or the page on your website which gives your profile. We do not recommend sharing your email address or phone number on our website. But, you are free to share your organisation’s name, address, location and even the kind of services you provide.
5. What Entries are Accepted
a. While we accept articles only on invitation, and we primarily are focused at having content written about Human Resources which is an original idea based on knowledge or research and will add value to our readers, we are open to being challenged, if there is an idea that meets our criteria of knowledge enhancement and we have missed it, please feel free to add.
b. However, the final call to publish or not is taken by a group of 3 Advisors, and they evaluate each entry on the basis of credibility of the author, originality of content and knowledge the reader will get after reading the article.
6. What if an Article is Rejected
a. When you get an invite, it means we are fine to receive articles from you, so if a particular entry is rejected, you may write another entry on a different topic. It may not be possible to provide you details about how a particular entry can be reworded to publish it, but we are open to receive new articles. If the advisors believe the submitted article can be published with modifications, we will let you know.
7. Copyright & Fee
a. While you retain the copyright, and are free to publish this article at any other place, we retain the permission from you to publish this article on our website, sister websites, marketing campaigns, videos and any other manner which is related to business use, even if that means commercial gain for us. This permission from you to us shall deemed to be till such time you specially write to us asking for deleting the article from our website.
b. However, all such use will always refer to the article having been written by you. Such marketing may include emailing, featuring on India HR Guide, referencing the same in the papers published by HRhelpdesk amongst others.
c. No fee is payable by HRhelpdesk to you for this article, its marketing, or dissemination, even if this article directly or indirectly results in financial gain, income or fee to HRhelpdesk.
8. Right to Erasure
a. You are free to inform HRhelpdesk to erase the article from records as per your wish. However, such erase shall delete the article only from hrhelpdesk.in website and we will not be able to delete it from all other sources where it has already been disseminated or referenced as a result of being on this page. Similarly, any fee generated as a result of this article (if any) will not be paid to you.
b. We however recommend that you keep the article active as it helps build your online presence.
c. c. HRhelpdesk too retains the right to remove the article from its website at any given point of time. If a decision is taken by HRhelpdesk to remove the article from its site or resources, no notice is necessary to be provided to the author, or to provide any reason. The removal of an article does not debar the author from submitting any other article.
9. Use of Technology
a. Support of AI is permitted like use of any other technology, however, we use plagiarism tools to check the originality and dependency on AI for writing the articles.
b. Acceptable use of AI is 50% and acceptable plagiarism is 15%, anything more than that cannot be accepted for publishing on our website. You can check the ratings by using free tools like Originality.ai, or Grammarly and many such tools.
10. Terms
a. We are authorized to modify the terms from time to time, and shall keep you informed whenever the terms are updated.
b. Any communication in relation to the terms shall be done on the email used to submit this article.
c. At any stage you are free to decline accepting the terms, in which case the right to erasure clause will become operational and we shall execute removal of the article from HRhelpdesk.
11. Association and Branding
a. HRhelpdesk shall not be showing you as an employee of HRhelpdesk, and shall position you as an independent advisor in the area of Human Resources.
b. You are free to position the article published on HRhelpdesk.in on any media you desire, however, it should be as per ethically and professionally acceptable terms, and no information should be stated which positions this article, HRhelpdesk or you in a manner that is factually incorrect.
12. Legal Liability
a. Any legal liability that arises as a result of plagiarism, copyright violation or any illegal act shall be borne by you.
b. We therefore request you to please be very sure of the contents originality and legality.
13. Communication
a. You may do all communication in relation to the article at hrhelpdesk@hrhelpdesk.in.
b. However, your point of contact and escalation or any information shall be the person who sent the invite to you in the first place. You are free to engage with them for ideas, assistance or any information you require.
Thank you and we look forward to a great knowledge resource from you.
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